In a round of talks with keynote speeches, Katrin Bauer presented the topic of social innovation and the Social Research Center's many years of work in this field. She started from a conceptual perspective and shed light on the term social innovation, the ecosystem of social innovation and, for the entrepreneurship researchers in the delegation, how the term social entrepreneurship fits into this understanding. From the large number of third-party funded projects in which the Social Research Center tackles the topic of social innovation, Katrin Bauer went into more detail about the work of the Platform for Social Innovation and Social Enterprises, in which she herself is active, as well as the European Social Innovation Alliance and the predecessor project of the same name. She pitched research approaches and project activities and concluded her talk by emphasizing the increasing relevance of universities and scientific institutions in the social innovation ecosystem.

As part of the eventful and fruitful delegation trip to India, TU Dortmund University further strengthened its internationalization activities. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) in Mumbai, one of India's leading universities. Further talks are also to be held with TISS on cooperation in the not only since recently increasingly important field of social innovation. Initial ideas already emerged during the delegation trip.